The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-05-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Less than 100000 of the 125, 0OO,-
BOO heather women in India can read.
Cardinal Manning has been pro-
NOTED to the vice-presidency OF the
London Newspaper Fund.
A profit of eight million forms
was Melted by the national library OF
Austria-HungarY last year.
"A line was let down into an ex-
tinct crater at Molokai, Sandwich ISL
ands, a distance of three thousand five
hundred feet without reaching bottom.
Quito, in South America, is the
only city in the world on the Equator,
and the sun rises and sets there at six
o'clock the year round.-M T. Wst-
ness.
Denmark is known as a remarka-
bly level country. Surveys Of last sea-
son find only two points in the KING
dom that reach an elevation OF five
hundred and forty feet Golden Rule.
A Glasgow yacht, destined for
perch fishing in South Australian wa
ters, has been fitted with electrical ap-
paratus expected to light up the water
to the great depth of seventeen faith
oms.
Cyprus is proving to Great Britain
an expensive luxury, because. although
the income from revenue rises some
100000 above expenses, something
over $3.50, 1000 has to be paid annually
as subvention to Turkey. - ongrega-
tionalist.
In Liverpool cigar factory, where
one thousand girls are employed, a fire
brigade, composed of the operatives,
has been organized. The girls are
well differed and drilled, and at a re-
cent blaze in the factory did efficient
service in subduing the flames.-M O.
| Iin1es-Democrat.
The project of connecting Italy
with Sicily by submarine tunnel is
again discussed. The estimated cost
of the work is over fourteen millions OF
dollars. The depth of the sea along
the proposed line is over five hundred
feet. The length of the tunnel would
probably not exceed five miles. IN Y.
Ledger.
-Bunyiu Nanjio, now professor OF
/ Sanskrit at Toxic, has been sent by his
monastery on Il scientific and religious
mission to India. He went to Oxford,
some years ago, to study Sanskrit I'M
der Prof. Max Muller, and received the
honorable degree of M. A, on leaving
England. He is the auther of severa
learned works on Buddhism.
One of the newest and best of the
many circuses in Paris has just
brought out an old production
Spanish fair with all its adjunc:s, its
beggars, its mandolinlsts, its peasant:
and merchants in costume, its audi
ences and songs. and, to crown all, it:
bull fight. This is one of the mos
amusing and picturesque spectacle:
seen in Paris for many years.
The monks of st. Bernard, who
devoted themselves as ardently to the
study of science as to the rescue o.
wayfaring men, have brought the tele-
phone into their service of mercy. The
famous hospice is now in telephone
communication with the Cantine d.
PROF. and the village of St. Pierre, as
also with the Canine de Fontinte and
the village of St. Chemy, on the Ital
ian side. -Brooklun Eagle.
Mrs. Henry Woods grave is il
Highgate Cemetery, near those o
George Eliot, Parepa Rosa, Frederic
Maurice, George Vandenhoff, H. Crab
Robinson, Alaric A. Watts, Lore
Lyndlurst, and the father, mothe
and little daughter of Charles Dick
ems. Near by, also, is the tomb o
Wombwell, the famous menagerit
Snowman, surmounted by a full-sizeG
lion in marble. Boston Budget
| Some odd residents have arrived
at the Paris zoo. They include three
striped paradoxure from Indian; {
Scoops owl, captured at sea near Alden
a white-fronted heron. from Austria
liza; a Stanley parakeet, from Yves
Australia; Burmeister's cariama
Southwest Brazil; black sternothere
from West Africa, received in ex
change, and two smews. The "smews'
slightly troubled us, but the paradox
ure, the Scoops owl, the black sterno
there, and the Burmeister's cariam
puzzle us entirely. Chicago Times.
! THE COMEDIE FRANCHISE.